johnnylingo said:
This is what he said. Originally they had quoted $99/month / $2500 down / 22.5k miles ($5900), then while he was shopping around, the car he was looking at "sold". So essentially they worked out a compromise where he paid $650 more but got 30k miles.
The current advertised offer there is $69/month + $4500 down = $6900. So, it would appear that there was a $1000 dealer incentive that has expired.
He's pretty happy with the SE; the only complaint is no cruise control.
That seems to be sunnyvale's favorite trick.
When I was shopping one guy told me a price over the phone and when I called back got a different guy but told him what I was "quoted" and he flipped his lid. His voice got agitated, he was very adamant that I had not received a "quote," and under no circumstances should I consider anything said over the phone to me to be a "quote."
This was when they had the $59 dollar deal going on. He also asked if I was a friend of someone's who had referred me, well actually asked was not accurate he more or less assumed that I had been sent in by [some name] (he asked "you're a friend of Rick's right?") and I just went along with it. uh, yeah, sure, he's my buddy... In any case, he then went on to say, well you know that was a one-time kind of deal, but if you can come in here I'm sure we can get something worked out.
I was already dealing with Murrieta at the time down and my sales manager there was explaining there was no way they could do that deal and that she was all in on the deal we were working on. I read the web ad closer and
sure enough in the fine print it said all kinds of things but mainly interesting was that the price was limited to one VIN only.